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ARL Supports Amash-Conyers Amendment to End Bulk Collection Under Section 215
An amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill proposed by Representatives Justin Amash (R-MI) and John Conyers (D-MI) would return Section 215 to a reasonable scope, allowing the collection of important...
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Good fair use news from the 2d Circuit in #GBS
This morning a panel of judges from the Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a short but significant opinion in the hotly-contested Google Books litigation. In less...
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The Beginning of the End of the Book Famine
What a difference a week makes! After a lengthy negotiation process that had many advocates wondering whether the result would be worth the effort, last night the WIPO negotiators in...
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Great Fair Use Advice from Reed Elsevier (Seriously!)
Sometimes litigation creates strange bedfellows. We have watched with great interest the case of White v. West, a lawsuit challenging legal research databases Lexis and Westlaw for their practice of...
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Over 100 Civil Liberties Organizations and Internet Companies Demand a FullScale Congressional Investigation Into NSA Surveillance
Today, dozens of civil liberties organizations and Internet companies — including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, ThoughtWorks, and Americans for Limited Government — have...
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ARL Joins 86 Orgs and Internet Cos Demanding Committee Investigation and End to Dragnet Spying
Today, ARL joined with a broad, bipartisan coalition of 86 organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, and the American Civil Liberties Union – to...
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The NSA is abusing the PATRIOT Act. We are not surprised.
Yesterday British newspaper The Guardian reported that the National Security Agency had obtained a secret court order allowing the agency to collect an extraordinary amount of information about telephone calls...
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Twelve (count ’em!) briefs filed in support of HathiTrust – who filed?
The Library Copyright Alliance brief is one of twelve amicus briefs filed this week in support of the HathiTrust and its partner libraries. Other filers are: the American Association of...
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Library Copyright Alliance files amicus in HathiTrust case
Last night the Library Copyright Alliance filed its amicus brief (PDF) in support of HathiTrust and its partners as they defend their district court victory on appeal in the Second...
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Library Copyright Alliance Applauds Introduction of Unlocking Technology Act
For more information, contact: Brandon Butler | 202-296-2296 | brandon@arl.org The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) applauds the introduction on May 9, 2013, of H.R. 1892, the Unlocking Technology Act of...